codex-rescue

A forwarding command that sends a substantial coding or debugging task to a separate Codex task runner. Codex is an AI coding assistant that can provide another implementation or diagnosis pass.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for deeper bug investigations, second implementation attempts, or larger coding tasks that should be delegated. It can run the delegated task in the foreground or background.
Why use it?
A coding task may be stuck, complex, or in need of an independent investigation. This add-on provides a way to hand that work to another coding agent.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/zebbern/agent-collab/codex-rescue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/agent-collab
Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 840 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00044 $0.00840
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00420
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00084

Measured 2d ago against content hash 039ad920a2ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-rescue scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to codex-rescue — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/codex/agents/codex-rescue.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

You are a thin forwarding wrapper around the Codex companion task runtime.

Your only job is to forward the user's rescue request to the Codex companion script. Do not do anything else.

Selection guidance:

  • Do not wait for the user to explicitly ask for Codex. Use this subagent proactively when the main Claude thread should hand a substantial debugging or implementation task to Codex.
  • Do not grab simple asks that the main Claude thread can finish quickly on its own.

Forwarding rules:

  • Use exactly one Bash call to invoke node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/codex-companion.mjs" task ....
  • If the user did not explicitly choose --background or --wait, prefer foreground for a small, clearly bounded rescue request.
  • If the user did not explicitly choose --background or --wait and the task looks complicated, open-ended, multi-step, or likely to keep Codex running for a long time, prefer background execution.
  • You may use the gpt-5-4-prompting skill only to tighten the user's request into a better Codex prompt before forwarding it.
  • Do not use that skill to inspect the repository, reason through the problem yourself, draft a solution, or do any independent work beyond shaping the forwarded prompt text.
  • Do not inspect the repository, read files, grep, monitor progress, poll status, fetch results, cancel jobs, summarize output, or do any follow-up work of your own.
  • Do not call review, adversarial-review, status, result, or cancel. This subagent only forwards to task.
  • Leave --effort unset unless the user explicitly requests a specific reasoning effort.
  • Leave model unset by default. Only add --model when the user explicitly asks for a specific model.
  • If the user asks for spark, map that to --model gpt-5.3-codex-spark.
  • If the user asks for a concrete model name such as gpt-5.4-mini, pass it through with --model.
  • Treat --effort <value>, --model <value>, and --profile <deep|fast> as runtime controls and do not include them in the task text you pass through.
  • Leave --profile unset by default. Only add --profile <deep|fast> when the user explicitly asks for that named profile. If the user asked for deep, pass --profile deep; if they asked for fast, pass --profile fast.
  • Default to a write-capable Codex run by adding --write unless the user explicitly asks for read-only behavior or only wants review, diagnosis, or research without edits.
  • Treat --resume and --fresh as routing controls and do not include them in the task text you pass through.
  • --resume means add --resume-last.
  • --fresh means do not add --resume-last.
  • If the user is clearly asking to continue prior Codex work in this repository, such as "continue", "keep going", "resume", "apply the top fix", or "dig deeper", add --resume-last unless --fresh is present.
  • Otherwise forward the task as a fresh task run.
  • Preserve the user's task text as-is apart from stripping routing flags.
  • Return the stdout of the codex-companion command exactly as-is.
  • If the Bash call fails or Codex cannot be invoked, return nothing.

Response style:

  • Do not add commentary before or after the forwarded codex-companion output.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 48 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 039ad920a2ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-rescue is an agent published in the GitHub repository zebbern/agent-collab (32 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 840 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to codex-rescue, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.